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Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English

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Academic Degrees

B.A., Government College, Lahore, Pakistan LL.B, Punjab University Law College, Lahore M.A., University of the Punjab M.A., Emory University Ph.D., Emory University

Teaching and Scholarly Interests

Professor Khwaja specializes in the areas of Victorian literature, British Romanticism, and Postcolonial literature and also teaches courses in Creative Writing. He has published critical articles on English, Postcolonial, Urdu, and Punjabi writers and edited two anthologies of Pakistani literature, translating fiction and poetry from Urdu and Punjabi into English. He has published four volumes of original poetry and a literary travelogue about his experiences as Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. A native of Pakistan, he was a practicing lawyer, professor of law, and a regular columnist for the national papers before migrating to the States in 1994.

Ongoing research and writing includes a monograph on Sir William Jones and the Hastings’ Circle, British Indian Scholars-Administrators of the 18th century; the conflation of Romanticism with Imperialism; critical articles on selected South Asian writers; and the pertinence of Gothic texts to the contemporary world.